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ASK ME, DON'T TELL ME. Contem 1960 22min sd b&w $75. rent $5 sh-c-ad
Produced by David Myers for American Friends Service Committee
Story of Youth for Service, an orpranization sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee and created to help teenage boys, many from depressed housing areas, to realize that they can help others and play a useful part in the community through volunteer work projects. Shows several work projects, and council meetings to settle differences^ between clubs before they blow up into nmibles
ASPEN: SUMMER. Gassan 1961 13min sd color $125. rent $5
sh-c-ad Recreates the story of Aspen. Colorado in the Rocky Mountains. Created in 1879 by the first silver strike of the Rockies. Aspen grew swiftly to an electrified city of 12,000. When the silver market disappeared in 1893, the town dwindled to 400 people. In 1949 the town became news as the site of the Goethe Bi-centennial Convocation. Albert Schweitzer, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Ludwig Lewisohn and others came to Aspen. Pictures the new Aspen as a summer center for music and thought, a winter delight for skiers and executives
THE ASTRONOMER. IntFlmBur 1960 16min sd color $165. rent $7.50 jh-sh Produced by Visual Education Films Comprehensive picture of the methods and tools used by present-day astronomers. Shows the construction and functions of the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Mountain, the solar tower, Schmidt-type telescope, refractor, reflector and radio telescopes. Stresses the work of* the astronomer away from the telescope: the measurement and analysis of the many photographs and spectrograms made at the telescope
AT SCHOOL IN SWEDEN. Creativision 1961 24min sd b«&w $90, free-loan; color $264. freeloan
el-jh-sh-c-ad Produced by Artfllm for Swedish Institute Tells how Swedish children begin their compulsory schooling at age 7 and attend for 9 years. Highlights Sweden's very modern educational system from the beginner to the adult continuation lecture and discussion study circles
THE ATOM IN THE HOSPITAL. Handel 1961 12V2min sd (Magic of the atom ser) b&w $65, rent $10; color $130
Jh-sh-c-ad Guide
Depicts installations in the radiology departments of the City of Hope Medical Center and the U.C.L.A. Medical Center. Shows radiol
ogy equipment in operation at the City of Hope Medical Center, including a stationary cobalt source, the new cesium rmg, and the total body irradiation chamber. Pictures the new total body counter facility at the U.C.L.A. Medical Center, and explains that one of the aims in this field of atomic medicine is to develop new diagnostic procedures requiring smaller amounts of radioactive tracer materials LC card Fi A 61-1001
ATOMIC POWER AT SHIPPINGPORT. Westing 1958 26min sd color $140. free-loan c
Russian. French and Spanish versions available
Depicts the basic nuclear, chemical, mechanical and construction problems encountered during development, design and installation of America's first nuclear powered generating station at Shippingport, Pa.
AUSTRALIA TODAY. IntFlmBur 1961 22mln sd color $225. rent $12.50 sh-c-ad
Produced by Norwood Studios
Shows the wild, harsh beauty of Australia's great imdeveloped bush country, the hard lives of its farmers and sheep men. and scenes of cities and the growing use of aviation, mechanization and scientific production in opening up Australia's hinterlands
LC card Fi A 62-597
EFLA evaluation card No. 4487
AUX PRISES AVEC LES GLACES. See MEN AGAINST THE ICE
THE^ AWAKENING VILLAGE. UnitedChrls 1961 34min sd color $240. rent $12 Jh-sh-ad Shows how a digger of dirt In a village In India, through the influence of a small Christian community, discovers a new life and is accepted as a leader in the community LC card Fi A 61-209 EFLA evaluation card No. 4488
AXIOMS IN ALGEBRA. IntFlmBur 1960 13mln sd color $135. rent $6 8h Produced by Visual Education Films Presents the fact that an axiom is a statement accepted as true without proof, and then, demonstrates the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division axioms as applied to solving practical problems, utilizing pictographic equations. Additional examples demonstrate how the root of each equation is used to check the solution. Uses a schematic balance to illustrate the axioms in even simpler terms, and to further demonstrate that like operations must be performed to both sides of an equation in order to preserve the equality These operations include raising members to like powers and extracting like roots
AZALEA TRAILS IN OLD MOBILE. JrChof C-Mobile 1960 26V4min sd color free-loan el-Jh-sh-ad ^ ^ Replaces the film "Along Mobile's Azalea Trail"
^, ^ A tour of the Azalea Trail in Mobile. Alabama, showing the historical aspects of the area. Includes views of Bellingraph Gardens. Long Gardens, and Clarke Gardens. Describes what the visitor to Mobile can expect in accommodations, attractions, etc. LC card Fi A 61-914
THE ATOM— SERVANT OF MAN. CanNFB
rev 1961 15min sd color $150. rent $7.50 Jh-sh
Revision of 1958 film "Atomic energy in Canada' '
Produced by Crawley Films for Atomic Energy of Canada
Explains the fundamentals of atomic research, the principle of nuclear fission and experimentation at Chalk River in medicine, industry and agriculture, and in the production of electricity
ATOMIC ENERGY IN CANADA. See THE ATOM— SERVANT OF MAN
ATOMIC ENERGY— INSIDE THE ATOM. EBF
1961 131/^min sd (Science for the space age
ser) b&w $75, color $150
ei-jh Guide
Visualizes in animation the structure of
the atom; shows, in demonstrations involving
the cloud chamber and the Geiger counter, the
Eower of the atom, and observes its uses in a ospital. an atomic power plant, and an atomic submarine _ , „^ „„„ LC card Fi A 61-887
THE BACK-BREAKING LEAF. Contem 1960 30min sd b«S:w $130. rent $7 sh-c-ad
Produced by National Film Board of Canada
Depicts the 30.000 migrant workers who work in the tobacco fields in southwestern Ontario, during the month of August every year. Points out that the farmers and local people make their profit in four critical harvest weeks
LC card Fi A 60-3035
EFLA evaluation card No. 4418
BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES. Thorne 1960 5min sd color (Bacteriological techniques ser) $60. rent apply sh-c
Correlated with the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study textbook "High school biology'
Illustrates making cotton plugs, flaming wire loop, transferring culture from tube to tube and tube to flask, pipetting preparing agar plates, spotting, streaking, picking up cover slip by hanging drop, and forming a microculture chamber